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Jun 6, 2018 · The tennis tour she set up -- the Mary Pierce Indian Ocean Series -- is part of her wish to give young girls a path to the pros. ... In 2017, Pierce's father was diagnosed with bladder cancer, and ...
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Jun 15, 2020 · Pierce shares a passionate story forehand and father. Even during these perilous times for public health, a concept such as Noah Rubin's Behind the Racquet series can carry on. And it does so with ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Tennis fans around the world will remember her because Mary Pierce was one of the all-time greats of the game. Despite a turbulent off-court life, including her relationship with her father, she ...
Jul 16, 2019 · Pierce’s father, Jim, had been her coach, but also as brutal a tennis parent as the sport has ever seen. So harsh was Jim that in July 1993, Mary successfully filed for a restraining order.
May 21, 2019 · Some kids grow up in mansions – not Mary Pierce. She lived out of a ’79 white Cadillac that was missing a hubcap. And a lot more was missing. She got little help from the USTA and, at 13, all alone and not knowing French, she went to Paris. When she emerged there was no gala debut, no media frenzy and no pricey endorsements.
The return of Jim Pierce. Seven years ago Mary Pierce cut off all ties with her father, whose brutal training methods and foul-mouthed courtside behaviour made him the original dad from hell. Now ...
Mary Pierce was born on January 15, 1975, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to an American father and a French mother. Soon after her birth her parents, Jim and Yannick (Adjani) Pierce, married. The following year Pierce's brother, David, was born. The family moved to Florida, where her father, an ex-Marine with a criminal record, made and sold jewelry.
